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Digital Public Goods Standard
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
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Are there any creative commons licenses we do NOT want to accept #94

Closed Lucyeoh closed 1 year ago

Lucyeoh commented 2 years ago

Today the standard indicator 2 only requires that "the use of a Creative Commons license".

The rest of the components are currently "encouraged" - While we encourage projects to use a license that allows for both derivatives and commercial reuse (CC-BY and CC-BY-SA), or dedicate content to the public domain (CC0); licenses that do not allow for commercial reuse (CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-NC-SA) are also accepted.

This discussion is to see if there are any CC licenses we feel would exclude a project from DPG status.

lacabra commented 2 years ago

@Lucyeoh: please refer to the explicit list of approved licenses. If a license is not listed there, it is not accepted. Also please note that some CC licenses are accepted for content but that same license is not acceptable for data, so each section explicitly lists its own acceptable licenses.

I am supportive of amending the text of the indicator to more clearly capture this, but changing the list of approved licenses would be a major change.

nathanbaleeta commented 2 years ago

@Lucyeoh here is a list of the non-conformant licenses we currently refer to.

downeymj commented 2 years ago

I thought I should a reminder in writing that CC's noncommercial (NC) licenses are both on the "list of approved licenses" and the "list of the non-comformant licenses". IANAL but it has long been my understanding that CC's NC licenses would not allow use by, for example, NGOs using a tool for fundraising management since revenue-generating activity, even by nonprofits, is considered a commercial activity. For more on this topic, see: https://dustycloud.org/blog/noncommercial-doesnt-compose/

jwflory commented 2 years ago

The wording in the indicator could change to Free Culture or NonCommercial Creative Commons licenses. This language captures the large number of CC licenses we accept in the standard already today.

prajectory commented 2 years ago

We will be taking this in the discussion in next standard council. There might be some reason to believe that we need to amend the language to clarify it further.

prajectory commented 2 years ago

We are adding some of the IGO variant licenses to the list of acceptable licenses. These are referred in #111 Other than that NC licenses that we already accept are as explicitly mentioned as possible in the standard. The standard is read by many non technical folks with limited understanding of open source licensing. For that reason, it will be more helpful for this information to rest in the help centre. @jwflory I will need your help in articulating some of the indicators so that we receive more robust documentation from the applicants. I shall be in touch for that. Adding a tag here and keeping this issue open until we resolve this through the help centre.

jwflory commented 2 years ago

@prajectory I don't understand your ask. Is this different from what is already proposed in DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates#940?

prajectory commented 1 year ago

This change was executed in https://github.com/DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates/pull/940 and this issue has been closed for the same reason.